Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and Surreal Things

After 10 hours by train, I made two dreams come true: to visit Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum and to see “The Surreal Things”, the first exhibition about Surrealism and Design.

I arrived at Bilbao very early in the mourning on a saturday: that’s was nice in a way, ’cause there were nobody at the streets, so I could take some nice pictures, it’s was cinematographic.

Every museum of the world seem to desire one Louise Borgeouis’ spider: there is one small one at th Mac from Sao Paulo; another big one at Tate Modern London, one at a museum in Tokyo – a friend just told me – and this one in Bilbao. Anywhere else? It’s really increndible the shadows effects that is makes, and depending from the angle, it seem that a giant spider is attacking the Guggenheim.

The constrasts of the titanium, the flowers and the mountain…

That’s it is not just a museum: it’s an archictecture experience. The museum’s archicteture nowadays causes in us – simple human being – the same effects that the catholical churches did in medieval times!

 I felt like in trance when I first came in: I have not words to describe!

The intelligence of Frank O. Gehry, the archictecture that conceived the project, is a mark of new era of doing buildings. He is simply brilliant. Super-human. How could he created that? There is not a regular column, a normal space or exposition room, even the glasses are not conected into the other, they have a space between then, like the box that covers the lift.

They don’t allow us to take pictures, so everything was done very quickly, sorry for my focus!

Some of the collection:

The room dedicated to Richard Serra:

 

Juan Munoz retrospective:

The Surreal Things: I spent 5 hours in the museum, most of all the time studying and doing notes about it. I need more time to write it down; so, after finishing my classes, I’ll prepare my coverture about this unique exibition, and I’ll post it at RodadaModa.com.

I just made this picture – that one was really impossible to photograph! It is a reproduction in miniature of the Gallery ART OF THE CENTURY, from Peggy Guggenheim, that she made in New York. Look at the interesting way of exposing the pictures. I’ll explain in details later on!

I’ll finish with flowers: real…

and artificial – these ones by Jeff Koons